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Wilderness Exploration on Governors Island

Cross the Buttermilk Channel and explore the wilderness areas of Governors Island with urban naturalist Gabriel Willow. Although largely developed with forts, houses, lawns, churches, and mini-golf courses, the island is also a wilderness area home to numerous plants, pollinators, and nesting birds. The island’s abandoned pier has the only nesting colony of threatened Common Terns in NYC. We will walk some private paths otherwise inaccessible to the public in search of migrating birds, dragonflies, and monarch butterflies.

Today, the idea of “wilderness” as a space apart from humanity is largely a fallacy, although even the most remote regions on the planet are subject to human influence in the form of climate change. During our exploration, we will reconnect with the overlooked nature right here, in the heart of one of the densest metropoles on the planet. Governors Island’s setting offers the opportunity to renew our relationship with the wildness of this place and the essential nature that connects the wild to our urban humanity.

Participants will meet at Pioneer Works at noon and cross the Channel by ferry before being lead through rarely visited wilderness of Governor’s Island. The walk will end at Nolan Park #17, where NYC Audubon has its residency, including several art exhibitions.











When: Sun., Sep. 17, 2017 at 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Where: Pioneer Works
159 Pioneer St., Red Hook, Brooklyn
718-596-3001
Price: $50.00
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Cross the Buttermilk Channel and explore the wilderness areas of Governors Island with urban naturalist Gabriel Willow. Although largely developed with forts, houses, lawns, churches, and mini-golf courses, the island is also a wilderness area home to numerous plants, pollinators, and nesting birds. The island’s abandoned pier has the only nesting colony of threatened Common Terns in NYC. We will walk some private paths otherwise inaccessible to the public in search of migrating birds, dragonflies, and monarch butterflies.

Today, the idea of “wilderness” as a space apart from humanity is largely a fallacy, although even the most remote regions on the planet are subject to human influence in the form of climate change. During our exploration, we will reconnect with the overlooked nature right here, in the heart of one of the densest metropoles on the planet. Governors Island’s setting offers the opportunity to renew our relationship with the wildness of this place and the essential nature that connects the wild to our urban humanity.

Participants will meet at Pioneer Works at noon and cross the Channel by ferry before being lead through rarely visited wilderness of Governor’s Island. The walk will end at Nolan Park #17, where NYC Audubon has its residency, including several art exhibitions.

Buy tickets/get more info now